. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/99 
12 February 2010 
 (10-0814) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   COSTA RICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio, Departamento de 
Reglamentación Técnica (Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, Technical 
Regulation Department), Tel.: +(506) 22 35-2700, Ext. 264 or +(506) 2297-1439 
Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, E-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:  
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José 
Tel.:  +(506) 2235-2700, Ext. 264 
Fax:  +(506) 2297-1439 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/
 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.230 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 439:2009, 
Preparados para Usos Medicinales Especiales destinados a los Lactantes (Costa Rican 
Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 439:2009:  Formula for special medical purposes intended for infants) (26 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation establishes the compositional, 
quality and safety requirements to be met by  formula for special medical purposes intended 
for infants. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human life and hea lth, and consumer information.  
8. Relevant documents: 
1. Decreto Ejecutivo  (Executive Decree) of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and 
Trade No. 26012-MEIC, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 100:1997:  Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Labelling of pre-packaged foods) and 
amendments thereto, published in La Gaceta  (Official Journal) No. 91 of 14 May 1997;  G/TBT/N/CRI/99 
Page 2  
 
2. Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 30256-MEIC-S, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 135:2002:  Etiquetado Nutricional de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Nutrition labelling of 
pre-packaged food) and amendments thereto,  published in Official Journal No. 71 of 
15 April 2002;  
3. Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 22268-MEIC, Costa Rican Standard (NCR) No. 148:1993:  Metrología:  Contenido 
Neto de Preempacados (Metrology:  Net contents of pre-packaged goods) and 
amendments thereto, of 7 June 1993, published in Official Journal No. 132 of 
13 July 1993;  
4. Executive Decree No. 31595-S:  Reglamento de Notificación de Materias Primas, 
Registro Sanitario, Importación, Desalmacenaje y Vigilancia de Alimentos (Regulations 
on the notification of raw materials and the sanitary registration, importation, customs 
clearance and monitoring of foodstuffs) and amendments thereto, of 2 December 2003, 
published in Official Journal No. 16 of 23 January 2004;  
5. Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of the Economy, Industry 
and Trade and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock 
No. 35485-COMEX-S-MEIC-MAG:  Publicación de la resolución Nº 243-2009 
(COMIECO-LV) de fecha 19 de mayo de l 2009, que aprobó el Reglamento Técnico 
Centroamericano RTCA 67.04.50:08 Alimentos.   Criterios Microbiológicos para la 
Inocuidad de Alimentos  (Publication of Resolution No. 243-2009 (Council of Ministers 
for Economic Integration (COMIECO) LV) of 19 May 2009, Approving Central 
American Technical Regulation (RTCA)  No. 67.04.50:08:  Food products.  
Microbiological criteria for food safety), published in Official Journal No. 184 of 
22 September 2009; 
6. Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Ministry of the Economy, 
Industry and Trade No. 33371-COMEX-MEIC-S:  Cantidad de Productos en 
Preempacados  (Quantity of Product in Prepackages), published in Official Journal 
No. 194 of 10 October 2006.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Upon publication in the Official Journal 
Six months' validity following publication in the Official Journal  
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
TBT Enquiry Point 
San José, Costa Rica 
Tel.:  +(506) 2235-2700, Ext. 264 
Fax:  +(506) 2297-1439 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/  
The full text of the Regulation is available at: 
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consulta/lactantes.pdf  
and 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2010/tbt/cri/10_0596_00_s.pdf